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2014 Speaker Presentations
Join us upstairs in the Wally Allen Ballroom for our in-depth educational presentations on a variety of gardening topics.
(schedule subject to changes)
Location: Wally Allen Ballroom (top floor of the convention center)
| Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Finishing touches: Details in Garden Design - C. Colston Burrell, Landscape Design Lecturer & Author
Ever wonder why some gardens make your heart sing? Chances are you are responding to details. From paving patterns and garden sculpture to stonework, fencing, and even containers, thoughtful choices in these functional and artistic elements help create personal garden magic in a space in which plants and hardscape complement each other.
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| 11:45-12:45 |
The Art of Perennial Combinations - C. Colston Burrell, Landscape Design Lecturer & Author
Nature’s color, form and texture are the media the garden artist uses to create a rich tapestry of unique beauty. Outstanding blossoms, foliage and fruit, combined a few at a time, help you to build a successful garden that is interesting and dramatic through the seasons.
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| 1:00-2:00 |
Taming the Wild: Arkansas Natives Come Home - Lissa Morrison, Botanical Garden of the Ozarks
Lissa Morrison, lead gardener at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, will demonstrate how we can include the most appropriate and successful native plants into our suburban backyard gardens. Lissa is passionate about native plants, and will focus on how to avoid the wild and wooly look by using native plants that work best in a manicured setting.
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| 2:15-3:15 |
Grow Your Own Groceries - Don Greenland, Arkansas Master Gardner
Would you like to eat better by feeding your family homegrown vegetables? Want to get started? Longtime gardener Don Greenland will show you how to produce your own bounty. He will also suggest tried and true vegetable varieties for Arkansas.
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| 3:30-4:30 |
Backyard Poultry: From Community Zoning to Your Breakfast Omelet - Dr. Dustan Clark, U of AR Cooperative Extension Service
Trendy. Practical. Fun. Raising chickens in your backyard is a great family project--good for the garden and for the grocery budget. How much space do you need for a backyard flock? What special equipment? What kind of daily care/feeding is required? Arkansas Poultry Specialist, Dr. Dustan Clark, offers resources, advice, and answers to your questions.
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| Saturday, February 22, 2014 |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Remarkably Reliable Plants for Arkansas - Lucinda Reynolds, Arkansas Master Gardener
With the many plant choices available, deciding on the right plants for your landscape can certainly be mind boggling. Lucinda shares experiences, information and photos about favorite reliable trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals that adapt to our Arkansas weather. These plants can add 12 months of beauty, color and interest with their flowers, foliage, berries, seeds or bark.
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| 11:45-12:45 |
Behind the Curtain - Nicholas Staddon, Monrovia Nurseries
Nicholas Staddon, Director of New Plants for Monrovia Nurseries, shares the scientific and adventurous process that takes a plant from its native environment, through discovery, cultivation, and extensive field testing to its eventual appearance for sale in your local garden center. Staddon also offers a sneak peak at some new and exciting plants suitable for your own garden paradise. Monrovia Nurseries will sponsor a drawing for plants following the presentation.
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| 1:00-2:00 |
Ornamental Edibles/ Edible Ornamentals- Janet Carson, U of AR Cooperative Extension Service
There is an amazing variety of plants that can serve double duty --pretty plants that you can eat too. Janet Carson shows us that many plants that we relegate to the backyard vegetable garden can be stunning additions to flowerbeds and patio containers. Janet will re-introduce us to plants that are as at home in the flowerbed as on our tables.
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| 2:15-3:15 |
Outdoor Arkansas Party Time! - Don Bingham, Executive Chef
Chef Don Bingham shares fast, easy, and delightful ideas for your outdoor dining and entertaining—for small or for larger gatherings. Chef Bingham will showcase some of our own Arkansas homegrown bounty in the recipes and decorating tips he’ll be sharing, and he’s especially featuring recipes that will appeal to the men in the audience.
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| 3:30-4:30 |
Your Urban Farm- From Plot to Pot - Nicholas Staddon, Monrovia Nurseries
Monrovia Nurseries Director of New Plants, Nicholas Staddon says, “Give me a bit of ground the size of a postage stamp, and I will give you an Urban Farm.” With an emphasis on plants that do well in Central Arkansas, Staddon shows how to include an amazing variety of edible plants in your urban garden. Staddon shares some of the attractive and versatile plants that provide a feast for our eyes as well as our appetites! Monrovia Nurseries will sponsor a drawing for plants following the presentation.
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Our Presenters
C. Colston Burrell is an acclaimed lecturer, garden designer, award winning author and photographer. His lifetime of studying native plants in the wild and in gardens led to undergraduate degrees in Botany and Horticulture. He has an M.S. in Horticulture and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota. His practical experience includes stints as curator at the U.S. National Arboretum and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, and in 2008, he received the Award of Distinction from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers for his work in sustainable gardening.
Presently he is principal of Native Landscape Design and Restoration, a landscape business which specializes in blending nature and culture through artistic design, and he is a lecturer in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he teaches about plants and their ecological connections to natural systems and cultural landscapes.
His personal 10-acre garden, Bird Hill, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia has been featured in The New York Times and frequently appears in national and regional publications. The garden is a popular destination for national tours where visitors discover a collector’s paradise inspired by the beautiful regional landscape.
Burrell’s writing reflects a love of plants, and he champions their use in artistically designed, environmentally friendly gardens. He is the author of several popular titles, including:
Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants, Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials - 10th Anniversary Edition with Ellen Phillips
Perennial Combinations, Revised 2008, (an Amazon.com bestselling garden title),
Perennials for Today’s Gardens
A Gardener’s Encyclopedia of Wildflowers, (which won the 1997 AHS Book Award.)
Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide, coauthored with Judith Knott Tyler, received the 2007 American Horticultural Society Book Award
He also writes regularly for the magazines, Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, American Gardener and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Lissa Morrison's passion for plants has led to a lifetime of horticultural experiences. Lissa graduated from Louisiana State University in 1971, and in 1980 moved to Northwest Arkansas, where she and her husband Merle owned and operated a wholesale plant nursery for 27 years. That nursery eventually morphed into White River Nursery, a retail garden center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Since 2011, Lissa has been on the horticulture staff at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, and is currently the Lead Gardener. Lissa also owns Encore Consulting, a landscape consulting company, making use of her experience and knowledge in her field.
Don Greenland is a retired federal fishery biologist. He has grown vegetables in Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Arkansas. He has participated in farmers’ markets in North Carolina and in Arkansas. Don has experimented with hydroponics and aquaponics and has been a beekeeper for many years. He, his bees and supervisor, wife Annette, currently reside on Downhill Farm near Vilonia. Don is an active member of Faulkner County Master Gardeners. His current gardening activities include producing vegetables for the family table and growing vegetable seeds for Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.
Dr. Dustan Clark is the University of Arkansas Extension service's Poultry Health Veterinarian. He received his DVM from Texas A &M, and completed a residency in avian medicine at the University of California Veterinary School in Davis, California before returning to Texas A&M to serve on faculty of the veterinary school. While at Texas A&M he completed a Master's degree and a PhD. Dr. Clark was the director of the Utah State University Provo Branch Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory before joining the Poultry Science faculty at the University of Arkansas in 1994. Dr. Clark works with the poultry industry and small flock owners on issues of biosecurity, and disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Lucinda Reynolds has been gardening since she was a child involved in 4-H in Kansas. Over the years her gardening experience, as well as her love of nature and keen eye for observation have led her to an appreciation of the “web of life” to which she, garden plants and creatures belong. Her enthusiasm has led to careful study and, luckily for us, some wonderful photographs in a fact-filled presentation about gardens that is as delightful as it is enlightening. She was the 2003 Arkansas Master Gardener of the Year and is a Level 3 Advanced Master Gardener as well as a Master Gardener Educator. A sought-after speaker for Master Gardener programs, Master Naturalist trainings and other gardening events, Lucinda is a member of The American Horticulture Society, the Xerces Society, the Arkansas Native Plant Society and Wild Ones. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in English.
Nicholas Staddon, Director of New Plants for Monrovia Nurseries, works with breeders, hybridizers, and professional plant explorers to scour the globe for new plant discoveries, and through a lengthy breeding and testing process, eventually bring those new plants to market. Nicholas works closely with professional garden writers and Monrovia’s retail customers, providing information on plants both old and new. He is sought out as a resource and guest for television and radio gardening shows across the United States, and has created a series of informative Plant Savvy videos that can be found on line.
A native of Great Britain, Nicholas received his degree in Agricultural Science from Otley Agricultural College, and before joining Monrovia, he managed garden centers in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Nicholas now resides in California and continues to travel extensively for Monrovia in his quest for great new and notable plants for American gardeners.
Staddon’s professional affiliations include the Royal Horticulture Society, the California Association of Nurserymen, and the American Nursery and Landscape Association. He is an advisor to the Sunset Magazine; on the Board of Advisors to Mount San Antonio College, Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences; the National Arboretum, Washington DC; and Cal-HIP, California Horticultural Invasives Prevention (a voluntary partnership, helping gardeners and the horticultural industry proactively address the problem of invasive plants in the trade.
Janet Carson’s official title is "University of Arkansas Extension Horticulture Specialist for consumer horticulture and the State Master Gardener Coordinator" for Arkansas, but anyone involved in gardening in Central Arkansas appreciates her as the articulate, interesting, knowledgeable "go-to garden guru" in our state. Her weekly column in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette is widely followed as are her frequent television and radio spots, and her recently published book, In the Garden, is introducing her to an even broader audience. Janet has a BS in urban horticulture and a Master's Degree in general agriculture/horticulture from the University of Arkansas and has worked for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service since 1980.
Don Bingham, conference speaker, entertainer, and celebrity chef is an Executive Chef, Certified Culinary Administrator, and a member of the American Academy of Chefs with the American Culinary Federation. As long-time television host and cooking show guest, in 2002 Chef Bingham was voted as an Arkansas Chef of the Year, a title awarded by his professional peers, and was named to the Arkansas Hall of Fame in 2003. As Governor's Mansion Administrator for ten years with the Huckabee Administration, Chef Bingham served as host, entertainer and decorator for a myriad of events, using many food and floral offerings from our natural State, and has continued this emphasis in his present role as Director of Special Events at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. The multi-gifted Mr. Bingham is also the host of (the magazine) 501 Life’s STYLE on-line video series, and is a highly regarded musician who has recorded four piano musical CD's.
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